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  Utility functions for use with UIComponents.
  
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<a class="signatureLink" href="#getClassDefinition()">getClassDefinition</a>(target:Object):Class</div>
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   Gets the class of an object.</div>
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<a class="signatureLink" href="#getDisplayObjectInstance()">getDisplayObjectInstance</a>(target:DisplayObject, input:Object):DisplayObject</div>
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   Using an input, such as a component style, tries to convert the input
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<a class="signatureLink" href="#getStyleValue()">getStyleValue</a>(target:UIComponent, styleName:String):Object</div>
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   Works like getStyleValue() on UIComponent, except it makes component
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<code>public static function getClassDefinition(target:Object):Class</code><p>
   Gets the class of an object. If the object is a DisplayObject,
   may retrieve the class from the containing app domain.
   
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<code>public static function getDisplayObjectInstance(target:DisplayObject, input:Object):DisplayObject</code><p>
   Using an input, such as a component style, tries to convert the input
   to a DisplayObject.
   
   </p><p>Possible inputs include Class, a String representatation of a
   fully-qualified class name, Function, any existing instance of
   a DisplayObject, or InstanceFactory.</p>
   
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<td width="20px"></td><td><code><span class="label">input</span>:Object</code> &mdash;  the object to convert to a DisplayObject instance
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<code>public static function getStyleValue(target:UIComponent, styleName:String):Object</code><p>
   Works like getStyleValue() on UIComponent, except it makes component
   and shared styles available globally rather than just in the component's
   class.
   
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<td width="20px"></td><td><code><span class="label">target</span>:UIComponent</code> &mdash;  the component for which to retrieve the style value
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<td width="20px"></td><td><code><span class="label">styleName</span>:String</code> &mdash;  the name of the style to retrieve
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